Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

"No ceding of territory, no payment of indemnities, the emperor guards the nation's gates, the monarch dies for the state."

In this way, Emperor Chongzhen preserved the last vestige of dignity for the Ming Dynasty and gave posterity a final verdict on the Ming Dynasty's reputation: a just and upright dynasty.

If Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, knew that the Ming Dynasty would ultimately end this way, he would probably sigh deeply and then pat Zhu Youjian on the shoulder to offer a word of comfort:

"Child, you did your best. This is fate, it's beyond our control. I don't blame you, I really don't blame you."

The posthumous title given to Emperor Chongzhen after his death can be seen as: Emperor Sizong Lie.

An emperor in the prime of his life ultimately chose to perish with his country. You could say he was incompetent, that's a matter of personal ability, but his integrity is impeccable, and that's the added benefit of dying for one's country.

Even Wang Chengen, the eunuch who chose to die for his country alongside Emperor Chongzhen, was allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum. This was the greatest honor for a subject, let alone a disabled eunuch. This was unprecedented in China.

For thousands of years in China, the profession of eunuch has had a bad reputation, and the common people even deeply resent them because of their abuse of power.

However, after Wang Chengen, even those who hated eunuchs the most had to admit that not all eunuchs were bad people; there were good ones among them.

As for the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, let's not even mention him. He's still enjoying his life in Fengtian now, but unfortunately, he was a traitor to the nation.

It is precisely because of this that Tiger's deeds are remembered by many people, which can be considered as indirectly protecting the Jingwu Society during its darkest period.

When the invaders first occupied Shanghai, they supported many spineless gangs specifically to deal with those gangs that had made great contributions during the War of Resistance, with a particular focus on the Jingwu Society.

During those tragic days, Leopard led the old, weak, women and children of the Jingwu Society to hide and flee. Fortunately, many conscientious gangs, moved by Tiger's bravery and tragedy, chose to secretly help or interfere with the traitorous gangs to draw the enemy's attention.

In short, Shanghai was in chaos during that period. The enemy's Special Operations Bureau, the Mei Agency, and the Military Police were like mad dogs, searching everywhere for anti-Japanese patriots. Later, an even more insane dog was added: the No. 76 Special Agent Headquarters.

Leopard's sons, Feng's son-in-law, and eldest son all died during that period. There was no way around it; they were too weak and simply no match for the fully armed elite enemy agents.

This dire situation has only recently improved somewhat, mainly because our base area is able to produce various weapons and equipment, especially pistols and grenades.

In order to contain the forces around Shanghai and buy time for the New Fourth Army to develop in the vicinity, they tried every means to send various weapons and equipment into the city. In addition to collecting intelligence, they also carried out the elimination of traitors who were working for the invaders.

Especially after our base areas began mass production of military radios, our leaders were willing to go to great lengths, even at great cost, to deliver them to major cities occupied by the enemy.

Sometimes, a single piece of crucial intelligence can save the lives of thousands of soldiers and inflict incalculable losses on the enemy.

It can be described in this way: a military radio plus an intelligence team plays a role no less than that of a main force company.

The movement of the invaders' supplies, the deployment of troops within the city, and the reinforcements and supplies coming from the mainland—these are all very important pieces of intelligence.

We deployed thirty military radio telegraph units in Shanghai in one go. The various telegrams they sent every day kept the enemy's agents busy. Even if one was accidentally intercepted by the enemy, they would replace it immediately.

The New Fourth Army even set up a special intelligence personnel training base in its core base area to train various intelligence personnel and conduct intelligence warfare against the enemy.

We didn't have the resources before, since the few radios we had were either captured on the battlefield or purchased on the black market, making it impossible to equip them on a large scale.

Even in an important city like Shanghai, there were often only three to five radio stations, and they were all old models with very short batteries that would often malfunction after a few hours of operation.

At the same time, the enemy also controlled all parts of the military radio very strictly. Sometimes, a spare battery or an important component could cost several lives.

The current intelligence work behind enemy lines is all about the industrial strength of both sides; it's a battle of who's afraid of whom.

Although our overall industrial strength is not as good as our enemy's, we have a great advantage in some local areas.

They even used their advanced R&D system to wage a small-scale technological war against the enemy.

For example, with military radios, the only way the enemy could detect us was through various listening devices and reconnaissance vehicles. Previously, we could only buy those outdated and old-fashioned radios. Faced with the enemy's advanced technology and methods, we could only be considered to be on the receiving end of attacks, and we didn't even have a chance to fight back.

Moreover, there are only a few military radios available, and no one dares to take the risk.

But now it's completely different. Our industrial zone can produce its own radios and improve them according to needs, rendering the enemy's detection equipment useless.

Even more impressively, radios can be used as bait to lure enemy agents into our pre-laid ambush zones, delivering a heavy blow to the enemy.

As for whether the radio station will be destroyed, it's not a big problem for us. Although transporting the radio station from our base to the city is quite expensive, it's all worth it as long as we can effectively strike the enemy.

After several operations, the Japanese intelligence leaders learned their lesson and dared not send people to arrest people even if they detected radio signals.

Through this back-and-forth, our intelligence personnel were able to fight the enemy on equal footing behind enemy lines, which was quite an achievement.

Until recently, after Kong Hao arrived, the overall strength has improved dramatically, and the enemy has been suppressed to the point that they can only defend themselves.

If we convert the results of this period of battle into money, we have caused the enemy at least 20 million silver dollars in losses, while our losses were less than 1 million silver dollars.

Although these things cannot cripple the invaders, they can at least weaken the enemy's war potential.

Most importantly, this great thing is sustainable, which means it can continuously bleed the enemy dry and deplete their resources.

To put it bluntly, this is a war of life and death between two nations, a war to see who can outlast the other.

Judging from the current situation, the Chinese nation still holds a considerable advantage in this regard.

The enemy no longer has the strength to launch another large-scale campaign. Many fronts are in a stalemate. Behind the enemy's rear, there are a large number of armed work teams, railway guerrillas, water guerrillas, village militias, and all the civilians.